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The victory continued Busch's surge since returning from a broken leg and foot suffered in a crash last February at Daytona. He won last month on the road course in Sonoma, Calif., to satisfy half the requirements needed to make NASCAR's 10-race Chase for the Sprint Cup playoff. Still, Busch needs to push into the top 30 in overall points standings over the next eight events.

Winning again certainly didn't hurt the effort.

"That right there is what we've got to do," Busch said. "We led the most laps and won the race. That's all you can score. We'll just continue to push on and thrive."

Busch missed the season's first 11 Cup Series races after his accident in the opening Daytona Xfinity Series race. His car collided with a wall not protected by a Steel and Foam Energy Reduction wall. The impact caused a number of tracks, including Kentucky Speedway, to up their own safety measures.

"I've got such great respect for what he's done," said Gibbs, the former NFL coach poised to land all four of his cars in NASCAR's Chase. "This is a great sports story. To be hurt that bad at Daytona and in four months win on a road course -- you know how hard that is -- then come back and win again, I'm just so proud of him."

On Saturday, Logano emerged as the leader on the race's final restart, one that followed a Kentucky Speedway track record 11th caution flag. But Busch, who excelled running within NASCAR's new rules package – lower downforce paired with softer tires – found grip on the track's high side.

The No. 18 Toyota made a second-plus gap to Logano's No. 22 Ford disappear quickly, then went on to win by 1.594 seconds himself.

"There's just no quit in Kyle Busch," his crew chief, Adam Stevens, said.

"So far so good, I like the new aero package," Busch later quipped.

Rounding out the top-five were Denny Hamlin, Carl Edwards and Matt Kenseth, all Busch's Gibbs Racing teammates. Brad Keselowski joined Penske Racing's Logano in the top six.

In his final Kentucky Speedway race, Jeff Gordon ran seventh, recording his fifth straight top-10 Quaker State 400 finish. And Clarksville's Will Kimmel, in his first Cup Series start, wound up 38th in Go Green Racing's No. 32 Ford, four laps down.

Though Kentucky Speedway doesn't announce attendance figures, notes from the track indicated Saturday's was "expected to be in the neighborhood of 100,000." Only the far reaches of the 107,000-seat grandstand were left empty as perhaps the largest crowd since the inaugural race showed up. Additionally, Kentucky State Police reported few trouble spots for traffic.

The yellow flag record eclipsed the mark set in a 2008 ARCA Racing Series event at Kentucky Speedway.